Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
Truman CapoteOne measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
Clifton FadimanA friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.
Sir Thomas MoreIt is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
Kenneth TynanFriendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
Laurie ColwinNothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore De BalzacTrue friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
George WashingtonI have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
Lord ByronFriendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority
MenciusI feel that I contributed well, but my strength and energy in that department is running out. I made, not friendships, never got anywhere like that, but you know I've formed slight bonds with people and they were lovely and gracious
Lesley BrainSecrecy is the chastity of friendship.
Bishop Jeremy TaylorFriendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
Edward YoungFriendship is but a name. I love no one
Napoleon BonaparteFriendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
Max JacobFriendship's an abstract of this noble flame,
'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross,
'Tis next to angel's love, if not the same,
As strong in passion is, though not so gross.
Katherine PhilipsBut friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas JeffersonPerhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George EliotFriendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone
OuidaFriendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Sir Thomas AquinasThe worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Francis BaconFriendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert LyndLove will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
OvidAll love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Ella WilcoxAnd even though we don’t have the professional relationship anymore, the love and friendship we have for each other will remain. He is like a father to me and I hope we both keep succeeding in our careers. [on coach Larri Passos]
Gustavo KuertenWe content ourselves that friendship is a reality, and not a fancy - that it is built upon a rock.
Douglas FairbanksA friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D RockefellerIn the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Kahlil GibranFriendship is Love without his wings!
Lord ByronFriendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar GracianEvery business is built on friendship.
J C PenneyLouise this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship
Humphrey BogartHow can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert CamusTis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Charles LambNo one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
Francis CrawfordLove is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce LeeMadam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
Sydney SmithI would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of France and the French people. [on London terrorist attacks, 7th July 2005]
Jacques ChiracRead as you taste fruit or savour wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
George HerbertLaughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Henry Ward Beecher Friendship and mutual co-operation must be the keywords for alternative ways of working once the Euro Ivory Tower has been demolished.
Steve BlakeOne friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Brooks AdamsI always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine MansfieldI understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Edward GibbonBe slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
SocratesIf we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte BronteLove demands infinitely less than friendship.
George Jean NathanFriendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibres, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.
Sir John VanbrughIt may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
Edgar Watson HoweI don't know what the fuss is about. There are 7,000 girls [on her friendship with Mick Jagger]
Carla BruniWhat I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
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